Showing papers in "Journal of Business Venturing Insights in 2020"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rapid response research that combines a qualitative research design informed by entrepreneurial ecosystem actors with an analysis of policy measures called for, announced, and reportedly implemented in the international press.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the benefits of decentralized finance, identify existing business models, and evaluate potential challenges and limits, and highlight the promises and challenges of decentralized business models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight ways that entrepreneurs can take action in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on three perspectives (i.e., business planning, frugality, and emotional support).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined Crunchbase real-time data examining entrepreneurial finance investments in China during unfolding Covid-19 crisis and found early-stage seed investments falling the steepest, suggesting nascent start-ups are those most heavily affected by the crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what measures SMEs most likely to take in order to make ends meet in the face of a "black swan" external shock, drawing upon unique data from 456 SMEs in the midst of an unfolding crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework describing how, under certain conditions, scaling social impact through ecosystem growth strategy can create unintended consequences and also challenge the prevailing reductionist view of ecosystem growth as a social impact scaling strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how packaged food and drink entrepreneurs in Finland took action to create and capture new value during the Covid-19 crisis, examining 844 social media posts of 66 ventures between March and May 2020 and interviewing 17 of these ventures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw from Wittgensteinian philosophy to offer a novel critique regarding the search for differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and explain that the idea that entrepreneurs are different gains credence through misleading forms of language that encourage the illusion of some causal interplay between opportunities and potential entrepreneurs, and overshadow the contingent nature of entrepreneurial action.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that breadth of cross-cultural experience cultivates entrepreneurial intentions through the role of alertness, a set of schemata for spotting commercial potential.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors replicated and extended the meta-analysis on family firm performance by O'Boyle et al. based on the empirical findings of 1095 primary studies from 61 countries, and found an economically small but statistically significant positive impact of family influence on firms' financial performance.

TL;DR: The authors performed a meta-analysis on gender-funding associations and found that female entrepreneurs need less funding for their ventures, which in turn results in less funding amounts but greater success, but the nature of the difference depends on whether the outcome is funding amount or funding success.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the economic uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 pandemic hit the self-employed particularly harsh by deteriorating short-term psychological distress, and the impact of income uncertainty on psychological distress.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three distinct types of SDG utilization, namely SDG evangelism, SDG opportunism, and SDG denial, based on qualitative interviews of 15 social entrepreneurial ventures.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrative definition of scaling social impact is proposed, which is an ongoing process of increasing the magnitude of both quantitative and qualitative positive changes in society by addressing pressing social problems at individual and/or systemic levels through scaling paths.

TL;DR: This article replicated the results on social entrepreneurial determinants, except on the effect of empathy and perceived social support, in the case of individuals with very low income, in a developing country, a rather distinct social reality when compared to other analyses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors leverage and translate research on ecosystem democracy, spontaneous venturing and entrepreneurship-enabled social cohesion to inform decision-making and contribute to the development of policy solutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the independent and joint association of four psychiatric symptoms (i.e., inattention, hyperactivity, narcissism, and hypomania) and entrepreneurial intention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on an autoethnographic account of an entrepreneurship professor and several colleagues who gave themselves permission to hustle to overcome perceived institutional barriers to entrepreneurial action.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the use of public venture capital programs to fund and grow the social economy through the case study of Heavy Sound Community Interest Company and concluded that, while SIF funding helped Heavy Sound to scale-up an effective intervention in the short term, further significant scaling might undermine the project's success and long-term sustainability was not assured.

TL;DR: This article showed that women may be at a disadvantage when signaling that they are "entrepreneurial" to venture capitalists and demonstrated how gender-based disadvantages may arise from role incongr...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how a firm's willingness to make trade-offs that favor sustainability over commercial goals attenuates the relationship between firm-level sustainability orientation and subsequent performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the affective turmoil experienced by nascent entrepreneurs during opportunity recognition and exploitation and found that four configurations of affect emerged associated with opportunity recognition, and their nature and importance to the experienced event are significantly different.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the evolution of different types of obstacles innovative startups face and analyzed the effects market and research resources have on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in reducing these obstacles over time.

TL;DR: The most prominent prospective leadership development measures in startups include experiential learning methods, such as action learning, developmental job assignments, multi-rater feedback, as well as digital experience learning programs and developmental relationships such as coaching in digital one-to-one sessions as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the evolution of an EE can be considered as a nonlinear chaotic process that changes over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a transactional-relational spiral model to explore the relationship between financial return and social/environmental mission in impact investing. But, the authors do not address the trade-off dilemma of profit/purpose tradeoff dilemma.

TL;DR: It appears that highly readable documents are generally valued because they make it easy for investors to process information, whereas less readable documents may be preferred because investors perceive the entrepreneurs to possess greater capability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors replicated the results of Van Praag et al. (2013) by distinguishing between entrepreneurs with and without employees, and they found higher returns to education for entrepreneurs compared to employees.

TL;DR: The recent emergence of blockchains has reconceptualized our understanding of crowdfunding, platforms, organization, and governance as mentioned in this paper, which has received increasing attention from entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship researchers alike.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rapid response paper explores how intermediary organizations might support and foster social entrepreneurs from disadvantaged areas and discusses challenges and opportunities drawing on insights from micro and macro level perspectives in the entrepreneurship literature and from the challenges faced by ANIP, an organization which brings together actors from different sectors to develop social entrepreneurship in disadvantaged areas of Brazil.